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Lifeline - Pregnancy Counselling and Care

24A Haddington Place
Leith Walk
Edinburgh
EH7 4AF

Tel: 0131 557 2060
Web: www.lifelinepregnancycounselling.com
Best time to telephone: 9.30am - 3.30pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; 12noon - 6pm Thursday

Lifeline is a charity which runs a drop-in centre at the above address. Lifeline offers the following services:

  • Anyone facing a problem or unplanned pregnancy can get a free pregnancy test and free counselling.
  • Professionally trained counsellors can help a pregnant woman to consider carefully her own and her baby's future and discuss all her options before reaching her decision.
  • Advice can be given on sources of help available to pregnant women: supplementary benefits, maternity grants, accommodation, adoption agencies, marriage guidance, etc.
  • Counselling is also offered to anyone suffering the trauma of miscarriage, still-birth or abortion.
  • Material aid - ie baby clothes and equipment - is provided to those in need; much of the equipment is second-hand; there are no resources for financial help.

The telephone advice line is freely available for clients unable to come to the office or who live in other areas of the UK. Lifeline may be able to advise on assistance available in other localities.

Checked: 9 Dec 2008

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